I am trying to checkin and checkout items from TFS workspace using command line. I am able to checkout the folder abc using the command,
tf checkout abc /recursive
which is working fine. The problem arises when I use checkin command. The command I use to checkin is,
tf checkin abc /recursive /comment:"Checkin check frmo CMD" /override:"Override"
This opens a Check In - Source Files window in which I have to manually press Check In button and then manually press the Override button for TFS to checkin the files. How do I get rid of this manual intervention that is necessary to checkin the files?
Edit: You can find the screenshot of the window here
Add a /noprompt option in your command should do the trick.
/noprompt
Suppresses the display of windows and dialog boxes (such as the Check In dialog box) and redirects output data to the command prompt.
More details please see this tutorial use Team Foundation version control commands-Check In.
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I'm trying a simple TFS 2015 checkin automation. I have a local workspace mapped to a local folder. In that folder, I added some files and deleted one. What I want is to checkin those changes
I run this command
tf.exe checkin <folder> /recursive
The result (unexpected) is "no pending changes"
If I run the following command
tx.exe status <folder>
I get the list of changes expected.
If I look in Visual Studio source code explorer, I cannot see my changes but if I try to add items in the TFS folder, I can see new files.
Can you help me to understand how I can automate this checkin scenario?
EDIT : based on this SO thread, it seems it is not possible to achieve this with local workspace. Can someone confirm?
You need to run "tf add" command to add these files into Pending Changes before run "tf checkin" command:
tf add * /recursive
I am using Perforce 2015 client (P4V) on Windows 7.
I changed some files in my IDE. Then I use "Folder Diff" in Perforce to locate them. I was expecting to find "checkout" right click menu on the "Folder Diff" Perforce window in order to move my changes to a changeset but I don't see any "checkout" around.
How can I checkout directly from Diff view?
If you changed files on your workstation, but Perforce doesn't know about those changes yet, the command you're looking for is "reconcile".
I believe that P4V's Folder Diff may only show you the reconcile options if you use Folder Diff from the Advanced Reconcile Options variant of Reconcile Offline Work.
So to perform this style of Folder Diff within P4V, you should start by context-clicking on the root folder in your tree view and choosing "Reconcile Offline Work", then choose the Advanced Reconcile button at the bottom of that display, as described here: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/p4v/Offline.html
Then, when Advanced Reconcile opens up the Folder Diff, you will see suggestions in red lettering about what your options are for each file (Mark For Edit, Get Revision, ec.). You can then pick one of those options by context-clicking that file in Folder Diff.
Alternatively (and perhaps more useful, once you get used to it), you can do this from the command line. If you haven't worked directly with the command line before, you can context-click "Open Command Window Here" on the root folder of your workspace treeview to get to the command window. Then, type
p4 status
to see a report about what changes you have made to your files, and
p4 reconcile
to make those files open for add, edit, or delete, as appropriate. Then close the command window and refresh P4V to see them.
I am not sure what your exact scenario and IDE is. I am using Visual Studio with the Perforce plugin, and when I make any changes in my source this plugin will check-out this file automatically (you can also choose to be prompted). So no need for folder diffs to locate any changes.
Should your IDE miss any integration plugin's then a very simple workflow could be like this:
Go to Perforce and check out all the files in your solution
Make your edits in your IDE (online or offline doesn't really matter)
In Perforce choose 'Revert Unchanged Files' on the changelist
And voila, only the changed files will be left in your changelist, you can then review the changes and submit to the depot.
NB: should in the mean time another developer have made any changes to any of your changed files, Perforce will warn you that you need to execute a Get Latest and then Resolve (i.e. merge) the changes.
I've manually deleted some files/folders in my workspace. How do I pend deletes for those items in my TFS workspace and get those deletes to be reflected in the repository (via command line or programmatic API).
You should be able to use the tfpt online /deletes command from the Team Foundation Server Power Tools. It will prompt you to "promote" any untracked local changes that not in the Server Workspace.
Deleting items within your working folders will not reflect the delete within source control. To delete the items from source control do the following:
Delete it from source control ui, do this by right clicking the item and deleting then committing the change.
Open VS Command line and run the tf properties command, example: tf properties /s:TFSServerCollection "$/FilePath/Filename.jpg"
This will let you retrieve the delete ID, for this example lets say the delete id 12345
In the same VS Command line window, run tf destroy command, example: tf destroy /s:TFSServerCollection "$/FilePath/Filename.jpg";x12345
Don't forget to add the 'x' before the delete ID. Press enter and it will prompt you if you want to delete the item. Say yes, and then press enter. Just be careful as tf destroy complete removed the item and/or folder from source control including it's history.
In Visual Studio 2012: These deletions will be detected, but listed in the "Excluded Changes" section. Open this list and click to "promote" the changes.
Deleted Files can be checked-in like regular changes, however - if you use Solution-Explorer to checkin, deleted files aren't included (because only files which are STILL in the solution are included in the changeset).
I ALWAYS do my checkins via the source-control-explorer - then deleted files are also included in the checkin (if those deleted files are below the source-control-folder you are checkin in)
Greetings
Johannes
P.S.: if you delete the files via windows-file explorer, they aren't marked as "deleted" in your working copy. ALWAYS use VS2010 to delete files (or alternatively the shell extension included in TFS Server-Powertools)
To see the history of each checkin a user has done in a directory tree i can type:
tf history . /recursive /user:name /noprompt /format:detailed
It displays all checkins "name" has performed with checkin comments and paths to the changed files. I want to display, in addition to that, the diff of each affected file. Like /format:extraverbose. Is there a way to have tf do that? If not, how can you create a powershell script that does that for me?
You can disregard things like branches and merges - there are none in the directory tree.
I don't think there's a command line for that right now, maybe you can create a Powershell script using the TFS Powertools CmdLet.
Otherwise you can still make a command line exe using the TFS API, it's easier than one might think. Look at this answer to get the source files of a command line tool that I made for someone.
I modified some of files which is under TFS, saved changes and tried to checked it in with the following command:
checkin "filename" /override:"1" /noprompt /comment:"some comment here"
and get the error:
There is no pending change for "filename"
Does anybody knows what should i do to check it in successfully?
Solution:
If you modify a file not in Visual Studio, it is necessary to do checkout before checkin to avoid this issue.
Just a guess, but it sounds like tf.exe doesn't know which workspace to make this checkin operation on. Look at the documentation for tf.exe workspace and tf.exe workspaces